Heraclitus Fragment PHIL 1301 Outline PDF

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Fragment of text of philosophy 1301 for the spring semester...

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PHIL 1301 HERACLITUS Fragment 52: Aion pais esti paizon, pesseuon. Paidos he basileie. Time is a child, playing at a game. To such childlike play belongs dominion. paronomasia: a play on words that brings out different meanings of a word stem…e.g., re-sist, in-sist, ex-[s]ist, per-sist, tran-sist, con-sist, as-sist, sub-sist….from the Latin root sister, verb: “to stand” Heraclitus: Fragment 102: “Humans see some things as just and other as unjust, but in the eyes of the gods, all things are good and beautiful and just.” Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy: “All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both.” FRAGMENT 123: Physis kryptesthai philei. Being loves to hide. Nature loves to hide Being loves to hide its hiding. (my looser translation)....